Archive for January, 2010

Broken Truce – Bring on the awesome

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Last night we went out to Boston Rock Lounge (out Doors way in Edenvale) to watch Broken Truce. The first band that came on was Mazaru. Very different hearing a band that use a Didgeridoo and bongo drums combined with metal! They were very cool and definitely worth an honourable mention. Next was Broken Truce’s turn to take the stage.

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I have a “Poken”!

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

So, I get told yesterday by battica that she has a surprise for me. When she got home, I was presented with a ‘Poken’, and my response was probably the same as yours, “a what?”.

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Adult Onset Momentary Illiteracy Disorder

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

AOMID (Adult Onset Momentary Illiteracy Disorder), is a relatively common condition which manifests when a person is confronted with a software error message which is outside the normal scope of software package installation or use, and is often characterised by fervid calls to some form of production level support after being unable to decipher the simplest of error messages.

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The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

This little issue can be quite annoying on any Windows machine.   You have a device that suddenly stops working, and device manager just shows you its famed little yellow exclamation mark.   When you open the device, you are greeted with the error:

Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)

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DIY Wordpress Social Media Icons

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

So, I was using a third party plugin to handle all my social media sharing, which was very cool at first, but it started slowing my site down (as it connected to another site), so a few hours ago I ventured out onto the web trying to find the code to do this all myself.

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Cookies Discarded When Using Hostname

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Have you had it that when browsing to a website hosted within a domain on an IIS server, you get logged off immediately?   If you then use the IP address it works fine, and also using ‘localhost’ from the server works fine?   This could be caused by a hostname containing an underscore.

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